>The hypo trait appears to lessen the black pigment and restrict the placement of the pigment (ie smaller saddles). If one "gene" or trait for this is recieved, the modification will always be "seen" or phenotypic. It can't be hidden. That's why hypo is referred to as "co-dominant".

Sorry. That is why hypo is not referred to as a "recessive". In the broad sense, any mutant gene that is not a recessive mutant could be classed as a dominant mutant. But this does not explain why salmon (hypo) is better classed as a dominant mutant than as a codominant mutant.

>A hypo will look like a hypo, or else it is not a hypo. It's either there, or it's not. But the trait is not necessarily "Dominant" over another trait. Like Normal is dominant over albino. It's just a modifier.

Using "modifier" in this sense, albino is just a modifier, too. Albino modifies the color so that there is no black there.

When I took genetics, "modifier" was a mutant gene that modified the phenotype produced by another mutant gene and could not be detected otherwise. If smutty in horses can be detected by its effect on the palomino phenotype and can't be detected in a wild type horse (bay, I believe), then smutty would be a modifier.

Paul Hollander

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• co-dom vs. dominant - NUCCIZ_BOAS, Thu May 25 23:25:25 2006
• RE: co-dom vs. dominant - senorsnake, Thu May 25 23:48:26 2006
• RE: co-dom vs. dominant - Sharpman, Fri May 26 00:53:51 2006
• RE: co-dom vs. dominant - BNixon, Fri May 26 01:49:46 2006
• Brandon... - ChrisGilbert, Fri May 26 07:44:02 2006
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• Correction... - ChrisGilbert, Fri May 26 07:41:19 2006
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• RE: co-dom vs. dominant - RyanHomsey, Fri May 26 10:53:23 2006
• RE: co-dom vs. dominant - snakehorse, Fri May 26 11:28:09 2006
• Excellent clarification - Thanks a bunch - RyanHomsey, Fri May 26 11:36:23 2006
• RE: co-dom vs. dominant - Paul Hollander, Fri May 26 13:01:19 2006
• Like you stated..... - rainbowsrus, Fri May 26 11:38:37 2006
• RE: co-dom vs. dominant - Paul Hollander, Fri May 26 11:59:38 2006
• RE: co-dom vs. dominant - metalpest, Mon May 29 18:43:39 2006
• RE: co-dom vs. dominant - Paul Hollander, Tue May 30 16:48:55 2006
• RE: co-dom vs. dominant - metalpest, Tue May 30 20:49:07 2006
• Ryan... - ChrisGilbert, Fri May 26 13:09:45 2006
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• Okay... - ChrisGilbert, Fri May 26 15:40:56 2006
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• Journal of Genetics Article by Rich Ihle - slithering_serpents, Fri May 26 22:09:40 2006
• When this was written... - Rainshadow, Sat May 27 10:03:11 2006
• I have read the article numerous times.> - ChrisGilbert, Sat May 27 21:59:13 2006